NAN DEBBIE AND GEORGIA AT THE LOWRY HOTE

THE LANDSCAPE

Paintings by

NAN COLLANTINE, DEBBIE GOLDSMITH & GEORGIA NOBLE

Lowry Hotel, 50 Dearmans Place, Salford, Manchester, M3 5LH

Exhibition Dates: 24.03.25 - 13.05.25

Comme Ca Art is delighted to bring three highly revered artists together for the second exhibition of 2025 at the Lowry Hotel. The exhibition highlights the individual artists landscape paintings, showcasing their individual styles and interpretations of the landscapes they both live in and imagine.

NAN COLLANTINE
"I paint from landscape, nature and the body, in particular the human connection to the sea. I use my drawings as a starting point to amalgamate of the topographical combined with feeling and experience. Building tension, through drawing, colour and the slipperiness and versitility of oil paint, using impulse and gesture that usually has to be rectified along the way – a process of action and elimination of anything that feels forced in favour of the raw and unpremeditated – a state of feeling rather than thinking." Nan Collantine

Nan Collantine lives and works not far from Manchester in the north west of England. After completing an art foundation in 1989, she worked in advertising and communications for 25 years, in the last ten years Nan has been a passionate advocate for culture, education and the arts working with cultural and arts organisations.

DEBBIE GOLDSMITH
In this recent series of paintings Goldsmith’s starting point is the landscape and in particular that of Cheshire where she currently lives and works. She uses the local countryside to make field notes and drawings whilst out walking, her quick sketches note the change in season and weather. Back in the studio she uses the sketches as a starting point and employs experimental processes in drawing and printmaking to generate a unique vocabulary of mark-making and exploring various compositions which she then works up into larger scale-paintings.

In the studio Goldsmith’s painting process is both meditative and deliberate in its approach. Her intention is to capture something of the outside to bring in, glimpses of recognisable shapes, repeat as a devise to catch the eye, one might recognise the shape of a tree, the edge a field, a path and although starting with specific subject matter her practice eventually becomes more exploratory and loose. The scale of the work is important as it relates to the way in which the work is made, the physicality of painting is evident, but it is also a way of inviting the viewer to step in.

GEORGIA NOBLE
"Through the use of oil paint, my artistic practice transcends the conventions of traditional landscape painting to invite the viewer into a fictional space constructed through abstract layers of mark making.

The sense of ‘somewhere other’ is evoked through a bold palette and varying techniques of careful blending, expressive brushstrokes and scraping back into layers of paint underneath to create a narrative that allows for fluidity between the foreground and background.

There is often an omission of clear structure in my work and as I progress further into a painting I paint in a more thoughtful and conscious way to allude to aspects of the natural environment. These familiarities found within the paintings provide the viewer with a sense of stability and recognition with the world they are accustomed to, while the colour and abstract formations deliver a sense of escapism, resulting in my work being caught somewhere playfully between the two." Georgia Noble

The exhibition is open daily from 10:00 - 22:00 and is on the first floor of the Lowry Hotel.

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